and work together for a better future and. see for yourself. in 60 minutes. what secrets lie behind these memoirs. find out immersive experience and explore a fascinating board cultural heritage sites. d.w. world heritage 360 to feel. the for. saturday we need a political and devalues based europe. in our hearts and minds we all share a longing for europe. is

it all peers europe emerged from the idea that there should never be another major war and that we should see ourselves as one i think that is a very very lovely idea and one that makes sense. with the european parliamentary elections around the corner we wanted to know what are the main concerns of people here at the moment. what are their feet is and what are they hopes. us $21.00 travels across the continent meeting a range of creative people. tell me station in rome the food this is where programmers and tourists arrive to discover the eternal city 3000. and years of european history all concentrated in

a very small space buildings that date back to the roman empire the vatican and other architectural masterpieces. busy rome is also a place where refugees and other migrants have gathered hoping for a better life in europe. though they're not always welcomed by the local population. and italy's interior minister has even threatened to punitive measures for organizations that rescue refugees from the mediterranean and bring them to italy you would usually. it's clever propaganda such bills are against the law and the constitution so it's legally impossible even if he says it's possible that in their law a.j. and i must add that if it once again he's managed to ensure the topic hits the headlines 530 feet up but that equates to. this is a strategy to occupy all the space in the media. maniac eagle and call it up you

prefer the country's cognitive space even more all they buy is a writer francesca melandri has no problem expressing uncomfortable truths her novel sung by joost o. or writes blood looks at the causes of racism it links today's refugee crisis to the darkest chapters of italian history this journey into the italian soul also tackles european illusions. 2 known have evil been missed so for a long time i didn't realize how much italy's president or much more europe's president is intertwined with the colonial past a subtle but anya they have known i will make up he taught. me of art there in committee we meant that up with the day i didn't understand how incredibly direct the links are between what we are experiencing here in europe now and i say that very consciously and colonialism record ya know. the writer spent 10 years

researching her novel she is featured in a documentary that accompanied her to it the opiah where she explored italy's colonial history in what was then known as a city or fascist dictator benito mussolini invaded of a city out in 1935 and incorporated it into his new roman empire hundreds of thousands of lives were lost as a result of italian imperialism. fascist italy developed its own racial theories but after the 2nd world war these and the atrocities committed in the colonies were repressed. not a fact this failure to face the past meant that this racism which is part of italy's history sank like a subterranean river among few myself that i owe it all began to god and since democracy's antibodies are no longer effective and what was once impossible

to say is now i no longer a political to believe hubie it's suddenly acceptable to say terrible things in public is a method so racism has returned in this dominating public discourse and it is. the legacy of the toxic policies of colonialism remains in her novel francesco melandri indicts italy's africa policies of the past 85 years and those who are gaining political capital from the migrant crisis. between even those out of straw men to be. used as a scapegoat to avoid talking about the real social problems in italy alley the lesser shit that is on. the massive economic crisis the high unemployment and the terrible prospects for young people when it didn't even hit the european economic commune. was created in rome in 1957 this was the 1st step towards the european

union a founding member italy is now europe's problems child with the populist parties in power campaigning against the e.u. . they're not a more this government has really poisoned the discourse on the social interaction but italy also has strong antibodies and italia the battle isn't over yet. no one can predict the outcome in court so it's not political if you're. in budapest reminders of the glory days of the austro hungary an empire about remnants of the communist era have largely been swept aside and those in power

would prefer to forget 2004 as well that's the year hungary joined the european union. for viktor orbán and his governing party fidesz the e.u. is the enemy on election posters that declared war on the block and its immigration policy is it's no coincidence there is no e.u. flag flying at the hungary and parliament often a source of controversy m.p.'s from far right party jobbik even threw one out the window. into the e.u. flag also plays a role in this new film a pro european activist tries to hang one up this scene was inspired by an event in real life. is that a if you. can't enjoy this film the protagonist is suddenly confronted by the police. are you.

missed. then why they were so we didn't shoot this scene in hungary and naturally we changed the characters yet. in reality a man perform this action 52 in the film a woman does a. shooting this scene in hungary where it would have been impossible feel awkward but it was. we'd have been denied permission right from the start and therefore that there be some word you. said about trying to skirt around this problem by shooting his new film in romania using drama students and film students his low budget production is aimed at the international market. we do is no stranger to this scene he took part in the pearl an international film festival back in 2010 with this ought film with an unusual aesthetic a woman fights for her daughter while reviewing her past. why do doesn't want to be

reliant on either government approval or funding to make these films independently as a good reason for that in 2014 while attending the toronto international film festival he gave an interview that criticized the regime in hungary after that he received no more funding for his films he came to realize excepting money from the state cost you your independence. everything is cleansed. now there's hardly any area which you could say is truly independent. certainly not in the artistic sector anymore that. in 2013 the national theatre's openly gay artistic director or bad ferdi was sacked the government wanted hungary's cultural institutions to strengthen national

identity or merely entertain the media has also become increasingly. singley onesided and those in the independent art scene find it hard to secure a rehearsal or performance spaces. is currently writing a new play which will be performed in this apartment. and as a gallery and cultural forum. a place for artists to exchange ideas and for counter culture just fine back in communist times. showing good soup. is with me here we perform our place in just a few square metres of space a show. the audience sits around us usually around 40 people mag normally the host of the salon provides some snacks and drinks after the performance. and discussions with the audience provide a real sense of community. because the. sample troy do has found his

niche yet more and more hungry and see no future for themselves in the country half a 1000000 have left during all bands time in office. he will shouldn't view europe as the messiah who will save them there's also civil resistance and it's these initiatives that those in power fear most. the young momentum party wants an open democratic hungry that will work with the e.u. and it's gaining momentum by the day. then germany germany is a founding member of the european union it's the member state with the largest population more than 80000000 people it's that's also the biggest net contributor to the new use budget. and that's a whole shed as a photographer a chronicler of our time. she came to bill and says she is just before the wall

came down to a city that reflect. german history like no other search a safari through the german capital along a bus route that shows how very this city is. imo this route crosses the whole of berlin going from a poor multi-cultural and trendy district to the kuta which everyone knows and on to the corner vault with its villas. capped and i have a feeling many people want to talk get things off their chest and someone with a camera can provide a good mirror i'm out of and that's what i speak. and that's our shields photos are timeless classic. they portray an affluent society whose affluence is not shared by all. the photographer takes a time before pressing the shutter she speaks to people who listens to them might

not have a beer. and. 2 sisters after a boozy night it's $1030.00 at the hall to have all the regulars feel at home in this traditional pub the hard to months coming years until the. tales of woe and hope. how shields pictures also reflect the political in the person. 10 years ago she made portraits of an aspiring generation . of youth in europe at a time when more and more countries were joining the european union. hoping for a better future for a share of its promising potential. of course there was a real spirit of european optimism there was very little criticism back then for the young lot of bad all of a sudden young people had a chance to move anywhere to train anywhere basically in the us been to gain. but

this spirit of optimism has disappeared the photographers most recent work focuses on the edges of europe on the refugee situation in the mediterranean. put in focus and if so they are. trying not to focus so much on the refugees so much as on the helpers the organizations which in my opinion stand for these european values. those who have said we're needed now and we see ourselves as europeans with humanitarian aspirations as people. and to mention she thinks that europe should not only offer promise but also bear responsibility as should germany after all the country is stable has a strong economy and an intact democracy. from the visit for bank invite i think we should lead the way pioneers also because i think that's how we're seen from the outside america seems to have an incredible appeal this isn't the case in germany

but it still is in europe. 4 years ago german chancellor angela merkel decided to go it alone she opened the borders to over a 1000000 refugees without e.u. support. and she called for optimism we've done so much we'll do it but many in germany disagree they fear that germany would be overrun but it would not be able to manage far right we have been so on the rise here as elsewhere too and a polarizing society and germany has been completely recovered from the 40 years it was divided after the war that the wall fell 30 years ago the scars are far from healed. the people of the valley beginning to understand for the 1st time what a long reach history really has how it shapes us and how little things have actually changed in the short time since 1909. things have changed outwardly but it's still clear that there were 2 very different systems i'd say that divided

germany still very much lives on. is germany fragile after all. can it be a pioneering force in carrying everyone with it while keeping in mind trained on its past. the heart of europe 400 kilometers east of paris in strasbourg on the border between france and germany. it's the heart of the old continent. and of the new one it's the official seat of the european parliament. but there are also other venues in the city that are talking politics. in

a minute mark or the only. good. protests against the president's reforms have been raging on the streets of france's big cities for months now. the neglected province against the rich capital . the underprivileged against the elites. stanislaw snow day an actor and the director of straw sports a national theater decided to explore the social tensions on stage. in france there are no children of factory workers or of agricultural workers among the elite there's a kind of sticking together and i think there's a form of blindness it's also indicative of

a more general problem in our western democracies. in all of society really represented by elites. this is the rehearsal for the edouard louis play who killed my father the writer adapted his book of the same name especially it's a polemical work against francis social policies to sit. through your usual type of you can mock the. leaders in the dock workers as characters on stage. at least while the story about his father is about exactly those people who don't come to our fantasy telling their stories there's a 1st step. the theatre wants to give all sectors of society of voice and a stage and this approach is also that of the theatres drama school of all skill

use and. france is very much behind the peer to scene is desperately want this does not render societal cinema fit best it's also. not de is working to change the ensemble so that it reflects french society better with all its ethnic groups and all its social differences if positive discrimination is needed to recruit young people from less educated families so be it he thinks that otherwise everything will stay the same. strong sports national theatre is the only one to enjoy special national theatre status outside of paris many small cities don't have any theatres at all centralisation is one of france's major problems and there was a huge gap between the center and the periphery. although there are many regions in france which have limited access to the internet and to culture which you could say

the same thing there's a lot of common sense a lack of good will. at the moment there's a controversy because so much money has been to rebuild not. only there are magnificent monuments all over france which are crumbling and nobody cares so yes there is something in france which is very damaged. this imbalance is also reflected within europe itself. this is the subject of fall creates this play i am europe which studies last nor did a staged at the beginning of the year. and . let me tell you that. we. didn't. so not only france is in crisis what is no day's vision of europe. it's a place where people come together because they have something to say to each other

not just because they want to trade things cannot make arguments are not enough it's not enough to say that france alone wouldn't be able to negotiate free trade agreements that's a bad argument i think people need to have something to dream about. dublin is building the future on the banks of the briffa living. for many years the docklands area was poor now it's a lively business hub where many i.t. giants have their european headquarters multinationals were drawn by low corporate tax rates and flexible labor laws now they declare their worldwide revenues here and save billions but they've also brought money to the country and jobs as a result however housing and general living costs have exploded. members

of the folk band to line come up very unhappy about the general economic situation but they scrape by somehow the group are hearses in a ratty pizza kitchen in a working class district of the city this is where they wrote most of their songs. c c maybe artists musicians codes find some easier way of making a living book for us now the way most people i think that i know who are like

living as artists or musicians there was living on the dole basically also to go lloyd at all is like the artist's wage. they're going to scrape in body and entered our day jobs yeah a lot of. the musicians or whatever would have a page up and then trying to work. whatever. the government has tended to take the attitude that market forces will self regulate but in dublin the results are clear there is the economic miracle on the one hand and grinding poverty only on that rents in dublin have risen by almost 70 percent since 2012 there are more and more homeless people. some 20000 people are waiting for social housing and well qualified young people are leaving ireland because they can't afford the rents. either what. is the.

first version. of. emigration has been a major problem for ireland for well over a century and a half now in the 1840s a 1000000 people died in the great famine and up to 2000000 people emigrated mass migration continued in the 20th century the country which was under british rule for centuries remained. after island joined the european union in the early 1970 s. the situation began to improve by the mid 1990 s. the country had earned the nickname of celtic tiger the victors write history the saying goes but in ireland they say it's the losers who sing the songs. so there's always being kind of aspect to folk music where some kind of like rebellious are on the author of terry in nature and i suppose that would be an element that we're

picking up on though. the financial crisis of 2008 island very hard causing the property market to collapse plunging the country into recession many banks and financial institutions faced bankruptcy so ireland received a bailout from the eurozone now its economy is on the rise again. thanks to questionable tax incentives. it has reopened old when a lot of things are in the open at the moment. one of them is like the rest of your breeding guess the sea the kind of like that we've had to deal with for the last a 100 years but the hands of the british mean i think if we were and if we didn't have like a bucket of the big e.u. states at the moment we you know we would be just totally destroyed. maybe you know steam rolled over by what the british want one of the don't think we would be recovered shops very sad and mentions skeptical about the idea of europe becoming

more centralized but he hopes that the members of the european union will continue to stick together just like he and the other band members are doing and drag his kitchen. data in. the back. which way for europe as the continent goes to the ballot box we took the pulse from italy to ireland.

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a better future. d.w. . an action packed life or bought off me because anything's possible as long as our coffee and his friends can drain our. country's movie theater in kenya as dot dot refugee camp. his life story may have ground to a halt. 27 years ago but there's no holding back his dreams. thank you for watching. cinema just starts may 27th on the.

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and then smash my much and i want. to top. the but. the bag. the bag the book. this is t w news live from berlin scandal in austria australia's chancellor sebastian kurtz pulls the plug on his governing coalition he calls for snap elections after his vice chancellor is forced to resign amid allegations that he offered lucrative government contracts in exchange for campaign donations. and.